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... living a very holy , pure , unselfish life , a painful impression of his own deficiencies a transient glimpse of a nobler , purer ideal of life , to which his own pre- sents a miserable contrast - may visit his mind . But such thoughts ...
... living a very holy , pure , unselfish life , a painful impression of his own deficiencies a transient glimpse of a nobler , purer ideal of life , to which his own pre- sents a miserable contrast - may visit his mind . But such thoughts ...
Page 62
... living soul is beyond the reach of remedy . You need not shrink from laying bare the sore , however hideous - from probing the wound of the soul to the quick , however painful the process , as if it were all in vain . Far less need you ...
... living soul is beyond the reach of remedy . You need not shrink from laying bare the sore , however hideous - from probing the wound of the soul to the quick , however painful the process , as if it were all in vain . Far less need you ...
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... living and true God , but only gravita- tion , light , heat , magnetism , may be recognised as reigning in their forsaken haunts . And we carry the same tendency into the moral world . The outward agents in moral and spiritual changes ...
... living and true God , but only gravita- tion , light , heat , magnetism , may be recognised as reigning in their forsaken haunts . And we carry the same tendency into the moral world . The outward agents in moral and spiritual changes ...
Page 74
... to work , the self - imposed rules of divine agency . Gravitation , light , heat , chemical affinity , are only abstractions ; they are nothing in themselves without a personal will - a living agent , 74 SERMON III .
... to work , the self - imposed rules of divine agency . Gravitation , light , heat , chemical affinity , are only abstractions ; they are nothing in themselves without a personal will - a living agent , 74 SERMON III .
Page 75
... living , thinking , willing agent . A human mechanist may leave the machine he has constructed to work without his further personal superintendence , because when he leaves it , God's laws take it up , and by their aid the materials of ...
... living , thinking , willing agent . A human mechanist may leave the machine he has constructed to work without his further personal superintendence , because when he leaves it , God's laws take it up , and by their aid the materials of ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...